1) Signs of factionalism especially in the WO*, partly in DC**** and others.

2) What does factionalism consist of and why is it precisely dangerous?

* See the present volume, pp. 93–97. Ed.

** Group of "Workers' Opposition." Ed.

*** See the present volume, pp. 89–92. Ed.

**** Group of "Democratic Centralism." Ed.

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3) Measures against this:

permission for a "Discussion Bulletin"—freedom of criticism.

4) Separation of criticism of political measures, etc., from practical proposals. Direction of the latter.

5) One of the causes was a certain isolation from the masses (not fully sufficient contact with them): on this—supreme attention.

6) The extra-party tendency of the WO, to be developed in greater detail in the resolution on syndicalism and anarchism, is supremely dangerous.

7) On the other hand, the merit of the WO—attention to improving the situation of the workers, to purging the party, to the struggle against bureaucratism, to the development of democracy and workers' initiative. At all costs uproot the sources of factionalism, threat of expulsion (